PERSONAE · THE VALE

Korsa Frost-Ear

aka the Eldest Skinner, Old Korsa

The eldest of the Rime-Skinners, half-deaf from the blast that first woke it — she keeps the den's one rule, never dig toward the shard, the way the scarred keep a promise.

She came up the ice-throat a debt-jumper forty winters ago and never went back down to the Vale. She skins rime-stalkers, renders the cold-glands under their jaws, and trades the pelts to outfitters who don't ask where they came from — and she rules the warm deep of the Frostmaw by one rule only: never dig toward the shard. She dug toward it once. The ice let go all at once and the noise of it took one ear clean; what she came back with in the other was worse — dreams that aren't hers, and the certainty that the thing in the blue ice is awake and patient. The young ones think the rule is superstition for an old woman. She has buried enough of them to know it is not, and she is too old and too deaf now to go down after the next fool herself.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Asheni

ROLE

eldest of the Rime-Skinners

LOCATION

The Frostmaw

Connected

The FrostmawPLACE · She rules the warm deep of the Frostmaw, past the ri…The Rime-SkinnersFACTION · The eldest of the Skinners; she keeps the den's one …The Frostmaw ShardITEM · 'Never dig toward the ringing' is her rule, made for…Verdigris LungCONCEPT · Half-deaf from the blast that first woke the shard, …

Voices & Sounds

Game Data (1)

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data/content/npcs.json

idkorsa_frost_ear

genderfemale

canon_refcharacter.korsa-frost-ear

nameKorsa Frost-Ear

factioncommoner

regionthe_northern_reach

health60

disposition38

greetingSpeak up — the ice took half my hearing and the ringing took the rest. I'm Korsa, eldest of the Rime-Skinners, and I keep the one rule of this den: never dig toward the shard. My youngest forgot it. If you're not here to make that worse, I've a thing to ask of you.

spawn{"x":-455,"z":-250}

behavioridle

face2.6

quest_hook{"topic":"the dig","quest":"frostmaw_toward_the_ringing","entry":"Korsa's youngest, Brevin, dug toward the ringing in the Frostmaw against the den's one rule and hasn't crawled back. She wants him hauled out and the shard left buried. Down past the dig, where the cold sings."}

quest_fork{"quest":"frostmaw_toward_the_ringing","branches":[{"key":"bring-back","label":"✦ I brought Brevin out. The shard stays in the ice.","say":"Then you're kin-of-the-cold, and the one rule holds another season. The shard stays where the dead-cold keeps it. That is all the wisdom there is up here, and you kept it."},{"key":"take-shard","label":"✦ I cut the Frostmaw Shard free.","say":"Out. Out of my Frostmaw and don't come back. You've put the ringing in your own bones now, and I'll not have it in my den. The Long Ring has you. Go and find out what that costs."},{"key":"collapse","label":"✦ I buried the dig. No one digs that way again.","say":"...Good. The cold keeps its secret and the den keeps you a quiet debt. We don't forget those up here, the way you flatlanders forget coin. Warm yourself before you go."}]}

topics{"rime-skinners":"We skin the ice for what the cold preserves and we sell it down the Karth. Hard work, honest, cold. The one rule keeps us alive: dig for hide and fish and froze-things, never for the ringing under it.","shard":"There's a thing down in the deep ice that sings. Dig toward it long enough and it sings back, in your teeth, your bones, your sleep. I dug toward it once. Look at me. Now I keep the rule.","brevin":"My youngest. Quick hands, quick to bore, quick to think the old woman's rule was old woman's fear. The ringing is patient with the young. It waited for him to come to it."}

bounty_on_assault60

bounty_on_kill1000

racekorl

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesAsheni

roleeldest of the Rime-Skinners

locationplace.frostmaw-cave

disposition35

affiliationsfaction.the-rime-skinners

secretsShe dug toward the shard herself, once — the rule is penance, not wisdom handed down. She has never told the others it was her hands that woke it.

voice_notesClipped; too loud on the deaf side; drops to almost nothing whenever she names the shard.

All Relationships (4)

located_in

→The Frostmaw — She rules the warm deep of the Frostmaw, past the rime-stalkers' den.

member_of

→The Rime-Skinners — The eldest of the Skinners; she keeps the den's one rule.

references

→The Frostmaw Shard — 'Never dig toward the ringing' is her rule, made for the shard she once dug toward herself.
→Verdigris Lung — Half-deaf from the blast that first woke the shard, and shaking besides — she is what Verdigris Lung does, early.

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